When a priest consecrates, or makes holy, the bread and wine during a Maronite Rite Mass, he speaks in Aramaic, the spoken language of Jesus. Hearing the words Jesus is said to have used when talking ...

SPRINGFIELD - The more than 400 families who worship at St. Anthony Catholic Church Maronite Rite are a diverse ethnic group, but its founders were of Lebanese heritage. This heritage will be honored ...

WILKES-BARRE — As long-time parishioners Letetia Capristo and Linda Joseph, both of Wilkes-Barre, talked about the healing Mass that was about to begin at St. Anthony/St. George Maronite Catholic ...

What can the Maronite Catholic Church offer to aid the U.S. bishops’ Eucharistic Revival that is currently underway in the United States? The two Maronite bishops in the United States say the answer ...

are among the words in the Mass that are in Aramaic. "Our rite is very spiritual," Abi-Sarkis said, developed by monks who lived in ancient monastic communities in caves. A sense of history and long ...

The Rev. Kevin Beaton opened the heavy wooden church door, bent a knee to the ground, then rose and walked down the aisle between the pews. He stamped his right foot on the rust-colored carpet and ...

ST. LOUIS — When Wissam Akiki was ordained as a Maronite Catholic priest Thursday night in St. Louis, he was welcomed by hundreds of supporters, including his wife and daughter. Akiki, 41, speaking at ...

The Rev. Elias Abi-Sarkis came to Tulsa four years ago to build a church for Oklahoma's only congregation of Maronites, Eastern Rite Catholics based in Lebanon. At midnight on Christmas Eve, the ...

BEIRUT — Under an open sun-setting sky on the sprawling grounds of Bkerke, the Maronite Catholic patriarchate in Lebanon, 41 couples were married in a collective wedding, receiving the apostolic ...